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Show May See the Monument to Beethoven. World's Fair Grounds, May 31. The celebrated German sculptor, Max Klinges, is just putting th finishing touches to the statue of the great composer, Beethoven, on which he has been at work fifteen years. Beethoven is represented in white marble, seated on a throne of gilded bronze, decorated with bas reliefs of Adam and Eve, Tantalus, Aphrodite and the crucifixion. A huge, majestic eagle in black marbles poseB at the foot of the statue with out-spreau out-spreau wings. The impression this elaborate polychrome poly-chrome monument produces is magnificent. It is to bo first exhibited at Vienna on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of the great composer. Then, if the efforts of Joseph Brucker, World's Fair Commissioner Com-missioner for Germany, arc successful, the statu' will be brought to St. Louis for exhibition ,in 1004, and possibly to find a permanent home in that portion por-tion of Forest Park where the Louisiana Purchase Exposition buildings are now rising in nobje proportions. |